Silage Season 2018

yin ewe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Antrim
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2 more load then done for tonight.
 

pappuller

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
All depends on the size of crop,the weather we did some 2nd cut at the heifer farm on Wednesday mowed in the morning chopped in the afternoon.
same here mowed some 2nd sunday night 8 pm picked up early mon morning, mowed some for 2nd cut hay on Saturday baling tomorrow, maybe not one of my wisest ever decisions, but it will be dry :p
 
Chopping straight behind the mower AND it is still like hay. Can't roll it in the clamp and the wholecrop is ripening at an alarming pace. At least 2-3 weeks ahead of itself.

Saving on fuel for the tedder & additive though :) ......... and probably fert as there is little point getting out there and no end in sight yet to this glorious weather
How many cuts have done so far
 

The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
So the question now turns to fertilizer after cutting. It takes me about three days to cover the farm. We have a forecast for potentially thundery shower on wedneWedn/Thursday. Would you go with fertilizer tomorrow and hope dew melts it enough, or wait til after thunder? But if I spread Friday and half of Saturday, I'd still have a days spreading to do on Monday. The rain would be long soaked up by that time.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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